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Schlagwort: Microsoft

It’s unbelievable: Microsoft Office Mac 2011 cannot open files from network folders when the share name contains „home“. My Synology NAS uses shared folders for each of its users. The user folders can be reached under the „home“ share and are automatically mapped to the user’s home folder on the Synology. This is the default setting for every new standard setup of Synology NAS.

I’ve tried recently to access an Excel file from my home folder. After double clicking in the Finder, Excel opened with this error message:

So it cannot find the file. This is due to a known Office bug that exists now for several years and appears to be still unpatched.

It’s inexplicable how an error of this severity is still unpatched. All my search results suggest me to stop using the home folder and use instead a different name. That’s working for my user, because it has admin rights and can open the „homes“ share with a subfolder to my username. However, not all of the users on my network should have this right.

I only hope that the new Mac Office will address this issue. The currently available preview is pretty unusable and tends to crash when I’m working with network volumes.

I was trying to connect my Xbox 360 to my shiny new Sony Bravia KDL-46EX720BAEP Flatscreen. I thought it would be sufficient to plugin a HDMI cable and I would be all set. The screen was immediately detected, but I heard no sound from the console. It took me a few minutes to find this awesome hint which allowed me to hear sounds from the Xbox 360 again:

You have to disable the automatic screen detection inside the Xbox 360 console settings. The console will restart and after this restart I was able to hear again.

This time it’s in english 😉 I hope that this will get me faster answers than if I would write it in german. So bear with me please 🙂

Today Microsoft released a public developer beta of Windows 8. I thought it would be nice to test, so I decided to install it on my Macbook Pro with Lion running. Windows 7 runs fine in VMware Fusion 3, however a Windows 8 VM will not boot. You will always get an error like „vcpu-0:NOT_IMPLEMENTED“. Reading this post about configuring Virtual Box, I thought this problem would have something to do with Intel VT-X extensions. However this setting did not fix the problem. Only todays update for Fusion 4 will let you use Windows 8.

I upgraded my Fusion installation and tried my old Windows 7 VM. It works just fine. So I gave Windows 8 another try and configured a new VM, just to be sure. With this VM I am able to start the graphical setup of Windows 8, however it will always ask me for a CD/DVD driver:

I tried using IDE and SCSI HDD configuration, but that did not change anything. The DVD drive is a mounted ISO image, from which the setup boots. I wonder myself why the Windows setup asks for a driver, if it boots from the asked device… anyways I don’t know what else can be done. I already tried to mount the VMware Tools installer (it’s just another ISO mounted to the DVD) and pointed setup to the drivers folder on that ISO image, but setup does not find any drivers at all.